πλανάομαι

English (Autenrieth)

πλανόωνται: rove, Il. 23.321†.

English (Slater)

πλᾰνάομαι
   1 stray from c. gen., met. ἀγαπατὰ δὲ (sc. ἐστὶ) καιροῦ μὴ πλαναθέντα πρὸς ἔργον ἕκαστον τῶν ἀρειόνων ἐρώτων ἐπικρατεῖν δύνασθαι (N. 8.4)

Frisk Etymological English

-άω
Grammatical information: v.
Meaning: to go astray, to wander, to go about, to sway; to lead astray, to lead around, deceive (Ψ 321).
Other forms: Fut. πλανήσομαι, -ηθήσομαι, aor. -ηθῆναι, perf. πεπλάνημαι.
Compounds: Also w. περι-, ἀπο- a.o.
Derivatives: 1. πλάν-ημα n. straying, going astray (A., S.), -ησις f. leading astray, suggesting (Th.), ἀπο-πλανάομαι wandering (Pl., LXX); much more usual the backformation 2. πλάνη f. extravagating, (pointless) wandering about, odyssey, mistake (IA.); 3. πλάνης, -ητος m. (Chantraine Form. 267; not from πλάνη with Fraenkel 1, 27 or from πλάνος with Schwyzer 499) who wanders around, wanderer, also wandering star, planet (Scherer Gestirnnamen 40 f.), medic. erratic temperature, adj. wandering about (IA.); from there enlarged πλαν-ήτης, Dor. -άτας m. id. (trag. etc.), -ῆτις f. (Lyc.) with -ητικός infiltrating, misleading (Str., sch.), -ητεύω to wander about (AB). From πλανάω as backformation prob. also 4. πλάνος m. = πλάνη, also tramp, vagabond, deceiver, as adj. errant, misleading (trag., Pl.) with πλαν-ώδης inconstant, irregular, sliding away (medic.), -ιος wandering about (AP); also ἀπόπλαν-ος, -ίας; περιπλάν-ιος, -ίη (AP a.o.). 5. Expressive-popular enlargement πλα-νύττω to wander about (Ar. Av. 3); cf. Debrunner IF 21, 242. -- 6. As 2. member very often -πλανής and -πλανος, -πλάνος, e.g. ἀ-πλανής (ἀστήρ) fixed star (Pl., Arist.), ἁλί- πλανος swandering the sea (Opp.), λαο-πλάνος leading the people astray (J.).
Origin: XX [etym. unknown] (PGX)
Etymology: Because of the meaning best taken as iterative-intensive in -άομαι (like ποτάομαι a.o.), if not primary formation in -(α)νάω (Schwyzer 694). Further history unclear; hypothetic the connection with IE pelā-'broaden' in Lat. plānus, (πέλαγος?), (not to πλάγιος s. v.), πλάξ (s. v.) with reference to πλάζω : πλήσσω (Bq, WP. 2, 62 [asking], Pok. 806). Little trust in the comparison with the isolated Nord. flana wander around, drive (WP. a. Pok. l.c. with Falk-Torp); as doubtful the connection with Lat. pālor wander around (Prellwitz), s. W.-Hofmann s. v., and the connection with πέλομαι (Specht ap. W.-Hofmann l.s.). -- Lat. LW [loanword] planus m. tramp, planētæ f. pl. planets etc., implanō, -āre seduce (: πλανάω). - The word can hardly be IE.